Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

LEGENDA AUREA . The collection of saints’ lives known as Legenda aurea, or Golden Legend, was the most copied text in the Middle ...

Claude J.Fouillade Legrand, Jacques. L’archiloge Sophie; Livre de bonnes meurs, ed. Evencio Beltran. Paris: Champion, 1986. LEO ...

Mark Zier [See also: BERENGAR OF TOURS; GREGORIAN REFORM; GREGORY VII; NORMANS IN SICILY] Gilchrist, John T., trans. Collection ...

poet. Thus, while the search for independent, corroborating evidence continues, the hypothesis that Léonin, known also as Magist ...

Michael T.Davis [See also: PILGRIMAGE] Benoist, Luc. Notre-Dame-de-l’Épine. Paris: Laurens, 1933. Prache, Anne. “Un maître maçon ...

LÉRINS . A small island (now known as Saint-Honorat) in the Mediterranean, just off the French coast at Cannes, Lérins was the s ...

One of the most striking traits of the church is its spirit of spacious grandeur effected by three-story columns that rise from ...

Taralon, Jean, and Pierre Héliot. Notice in Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de la France (1959). LETTERS OF REMISSION . T ...

established by 1341. The Leys went through successive stages, in both prose and verse. The final stage, in three prose books, wa ...

LIBER FORTUNAE . An anonymous treatise on Fortune that its author claims to have composed in prison in the year 1345. He seeks t ...

Known as the Pseudo-Turpin, because it was falsely attributed to Archbishop Turpin of Reims (753–800), this component has a sepa ...

metal book; Arithmetic emanates rays; Music has a stringed instrument. Commentaries were written in the 9th century by Dunchad, ...

eldest, Grammar, is the mother of the others. She announces her intention to marry un serjant Dieu called Faith; her daughters f ...

from the 12th, possibly Arras, Bibliothèque de la Ville 599. None of the philosophical studies of the Arts have illustrations, a ...

measures, and the practical mathematical treatises of Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa) culminated in the Fibonacci series for determ ...

Arts libéraux et philosophie au moyen âge. Actes du Quatrième Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale. Montreal: Institut ...

resident there, but citation from a copy of the full work itself rather than a florilegium, or collection of extracts, is not al ...

Patronage by kings and nobles had always played an important role in the development of monastic and cathedral libraries, but in ...

new, more detailed way. It should be noted, also, that in the 14th century the library of the Sorbonne had lists of books in oth ...

and nature of the Christian artistic image, its relation to the spiritual realm, and indeed of the entire world of matter to the ...